A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…

3. That whereas the Law and the Sanction of it is the moral or declarative cause of the punishment of sin, and it directly obligeth the sinner himself unto punishment; God as the supreme Ruler, dispenseth, not with the act of the Law, but the immediate object; and substitutes another sufferer in the room of them who are principally liable unto the sentence of it, and are now to be acquitted or freed; that so the Law may be satisfied, requiring the punishment of sin, Justice exalted, whereof the Law ⟨p. 166⟩is an effect, and yet the sinner saved.

3. That whereas the Law and the Sanction of it is the moral or declarative cause of the punishment of sin, and it directly obligeth the sinner himself unto punishment; God as the supream Ruler, dispenseth, not with the act of the Law, but the immediate object; and substitutes another sufferer in the room of them who are principally lyable unto the sentence of it, and are now to be acquitted or freed; that so the Law may be satisfied, requiring the punishment of sin, Justice exalted, whereof the Law ⟨p. 166⟩is an effect, and yet the sinner saved.

4. That the Person thus substituted was the Son of God incarnate, who had power so to dispose of himself with will and readiness for it; and was upon the account of the dignity of his Person, able to answer the penalty which all others had incurred and deserved.

5. That God upon his voluntary susception of this Office, and condescension to this work, did so lay our sins in and by the sentence of the Law upon him, that he made therein full satisfaction for whatever legally could be charged on them for whom he dyed or suffered.